rewrite help needed.

[Ian Hobson]

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:57:15PM +0100, Ian Hobson wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi All
>>
>> I am trying to set up a wordpress site using nginx, and I am running 
>> into trouble. Started with the page at 
>> http://robertbasic.com/blog/wordpress-as-cms-tutorial/ but things are 
>> not working. I think that my translation
>> oh an .htaccess file is wrong.
>>
>> This is the Apache .htaccess file I wish to replace..
>>
>> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteBase /blog/
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>> RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
>> </IfModule>
>>
>> This is the file in sites-available. / gives an empty reply, /blog gives 
>> a 404, and index.php?p=1 gives a url of
>> http://www.domain.com/blog/http:/www.domain.com/blog/hello-world/  and 
>> the page contains  "No input file specified".
>>
>> # Statements for domain.com
>> server {
>>    listen   80;
>>    #
>>    server_name domain.com www.domain.com ;
>>    root /var/www/domain.com/htdocs;
>>    access_log /var/www/domain.com/access.log combined;
>>    index index.php index.html index.htm;
>>    #
>>    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
>>    #
>>    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
>>    # serve static files
>>    if (-f $request_filename) {
>>       # expires 30d;
>>       break;
>>    }
>>    # send all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
>>    if (!-e $request_filename) {
>>        rewrite ^/blog/(.+)$ index.php?q=$1 last;
>>    }
>>    # password protect /usage
>>    location ^~ /usage/ {
>>        auth_basic "Please login";
>>        auth_basic_user_file /var/www/domain.com/passwords;
>>    }
>>    # all  .php requests to fastcgi using uri.
>>    location ~ \.php$ {
>>        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>>        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>>    }
>> }
>>
>> I suspect that the solution is really simple, but I can't see it.
>> Help much appreciated.
>>     
>
>     location /blog/ {
>         try_files  $uri  $uri/  /index.php;
>     }
>
>     location ~ \.php$ {
>         include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>         fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>     }
>
>   
Thanks Igor for your super fast response.

I should have mentioned that I'm on ubuntu and therefore nginx 0.5.33  
!  No try-files.

So I must either compile nginx on (unfamilar) ubuntu, or work round the 
missing try-files.

Regards

Ian